A modern-day writer and a Harlem Renaissance artist are connected by a painting with a deadly secret in this gripping dual-timeline gothic thriller. Shanice Pierce knows better than to heed bad omens. But it-s hard to ignore the signs when she finds herself newly single and out of a job on the same seemingly cursed day. Then, while cleaning out her grandmother-s house, Shanice comes across a painting. Drawn to the haunting portrait in a way she can't explain, Shanice accepts her grandmother-s offer to keep the family heirloom. She soon uncovers the story of the artist, a Harlem Renaissance painter named Estelle Johnson. The young woman was taken under wing by the wealthy art patron Maude Bachmann-or -Godmother- as she insisted her artists called her-and vanished shortly after Bachmann-s brutal murder. As Shanice digs deeper, the paranoia that-s haunted her for years returns. She becomes convinced she-s being stalked, and that the deaths happening around her are connected to the stagger
